Now Lebanon - March 14 holds emergency meeting to discuss Sayyed’s airport reception - September 19, 2010

The March 14 General Secretariat held an emergency meeting on Sunday evening to discuss “dangerous developments that occurred in the past hours, especially Hezbollah’s military and security seizure of Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport,” according to a statement issued by the secretariat.

This comes after former General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed was received Saturday at the airport by a delegation that reportedly included members of Hezbollah and other March 8 parties. AFP reported that Sayyed was accompanied from the airport by armed Hezbollah bodyguards after he returned from a short visit to Paris.

In a statement issued on Friday, Hezbollah called on the judiciary to revoke Attorney General Judge Said Mirza’s decision to summon Sayyed for questioning after Sayyed said on September 12 that “[Prime Minister Saad Hariri] should take a lie detector test to prove he did not support or fund false witnesses in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL).” The former General Security chief threatened to take his right “with his own hands” if Hariri did not give it to him.

The March 14 statement added that study of the “continuous coup against the state and its institutions” will be continued in other meetings.